With Student Advantage, your school can enable all your students to have the full Microsoft Office software for personal use, at no additional licensing cost­*.

This is a benefit of the Ministry of Education’s agreement with Microsoft, where every state and integrated school in New Zealand is eligible to get Office 365 ProPlus software for your students.

Find out what your next steps are to take up this fantastic benefit here!

*Datacom may charge an administration fee, for further details please contact Datacom at nzschool@datacom.co.nz.

Professional Development

Microsoft offers free professional development for faculty and staff, on-demand courses on teaching with technology, and provides rich resources in the online Microsoft Educator Network. To learn more, visit: mseducatornetwork.com.

We have just published a guide to AD FS 2.0 interoperability with Shibboleth2 and the InCommon Federation.It includes a walkthrough of setup of a basic lab deployment of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 and Shibboleth 2 that performs cross-product, browser-based identity federation.